The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 3
Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults.
Who acts: mother, nothing, daughter, King · What happens: have, care, be, lose, spoil, not try · To what, where: daughter, mother, any
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, nothing, daughter, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 death | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 death | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 death | punct |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 death | det |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 death | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 father | punct |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 cared | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cared | nsubj |
| 22 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | ccomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 much | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 afraid | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 Princess | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 Princess | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Princess | amod |
| 29 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 much | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Princess | punct |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 afraid | cop |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 afraid | advmod |
| 33 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 34 afraid | advmod |
| 34 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cared | conj |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 losing | mark |
| 36 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 afraid | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 losing | obj |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 spoiled | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 spoiled | nsubj |
| 40 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 41 spoiled | advmod |
| 41 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 afraid | advcl |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 spoiled | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 tried | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 tried | cc |
| 45 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 46 tried | advmod |
| 46 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 cared | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 correct | mark |
| 48 | correct | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 tried | xcomp |
| 49 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 48 correct | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 faults | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 faults | nmod:poss |
| 52 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 any | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | daughter's mother since the death of the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | care | past | nothing | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | nothing not said here | for much as this little Princess; afraid, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | gerund | nothing not said here | daughter | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | spoil | past | daughter | mother | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not try | past | nothing not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | correct speech: disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | any | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 8 | die | the King | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | fault | daughter | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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